What have plants ever done for us?
This talk with Timothy Walke looks at mankind’s dependence on plants for everything from food to film and from painkillers to paint.
Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust
Speaker meetings
Digby Worthy and the Marconi Transistorised Automatic Computer
Steve Kay will talk about William Digby Worthy, an unsung hero of British computing, as well his involvement with, and the history of, the TAC computer.
The National Museum of Computing
Civil Registration
Mary Teviot discusses the pitfalls of the indexes, spelling variants and errors in digitisation. This free talk is for BFHS members.
Buckinghamshire Family History Society
Weaving cultures of the Americas: the continuous thread
A common thread links the Incas, the Maya, the Aztecs and the Navajo. They have created some of the finest textiles in the history of the world.
Arts Society North Bucks
Origins of Andean civilisation and its apogee under the Inca Empire
Dr David Beresford-Jones is an author and a Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge University.
Olney Archaeological Society
The work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and its educational charity
Presented by Michael Chapman, a speaker for the CWGF. Mike will also provide details of some of the CWGC casualties buried locally.
Western Front Association Milton Keynes Branch
The Polish Bomba: predecessor of the Turing-Welchman Bombe
A brief introduction to Enigma, and then methods created by Polish mathematicians for cracking Enigma, before focusing on the Bomba.
The National Museum of Computing
Oxford – Beer, Sausages and Marmalade
Liz Woolley’s talk examines the fascinating relationship between food production, tourism and politics in the city of Oxford.
Towcester and District Local History Society
Tulips from Amsterdam: Dutch flower painting in the 17th century
During the Golden Age flower still-life pieces were especially admired and some artists were able to demand high prices for their work.
Arts Society North Bucks
The real story of how Enigma was broken
Sir Dermot Turing explains the international alliance which set the Bletchley Park codebreakers on the path to the British Bombe.
The National Museum of Computing